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    1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 30 Oct 2018
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      A Natural History of Beauty — new (?!) Melting Asphalt post on the ecology and game theory of beauty https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ …pic.twitter.com/KkQkCYgNCG

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    2. '(·)‏ @allgebrah 7 Nov 2018
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      re common strategies for visual beauty, I think there's two main forces at work: 1. clean lines and smooth surfaces are strong signs of "can maintain homeostasis even under adverse conditions", which makes them useful as costly signal (plumage) or hard to counterfeit (flowers)

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    3. '(·)‏ @allgebrah 7 Nov 2018
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      2. any kind of order can be proof of work, so why these patterns specifically? I suspect they need to be cheap to verify (so as to not impose unnecessary cost on cooperators) and the hardware most animals have for that is neural networks

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    4. '(·)‏ @allgebrah 7 Nov 2018
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      and it may or may not be a coincidence that flowers look like form constants fun implication: other brain types (non-neural) will find other things cheap to verify and therefore beautiful; other modalities (smell, touch) will have different patterns

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    5. '(·)‏ @allgebrah 7 Nov 2018
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      (this answers why deep-sea creatures are ugly: they don't really rely on sight. for all I know, the water flowing over their bodies may make really beautiful sounds if you're an abyss dweller)

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    6. '(·)‏ @allgebrah 7 Nov 2018
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      in fact the analogy to the "high creation cost, but low verification cost" design principle of blockchain stuff here is so strong that I feel wary about my own hypothesis, the framing seems overly powerful

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    7. '(·)‏ @allgebrah 7 Nov 2018
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      on to the other things to ponder: appetite for novelty is probably the counterpart of mutation: it is to encourage and exploit mutations, because as a species one doesn't want to get stuck in a genetic/aesthetic rut

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    8. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 8 Nov 2018
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      are you suggesting that my appetite for novelty is explained as an encouragement for you to explore/mutate?

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      yes and vice versa: if you're into novelty, you're an early adopter of potentially beneficial mutations; it's neither a necessary nor a sufficient explanation though

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